| Description |
1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Contents |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE CRIMES OF THE CENTURY; 2 CRIME AND THE WEST; 3 HATE CRIME; 4 POLICING AND IMPRISONMENT; 5 CONMEN, SWINDLERS, AND DUPES; 6 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL CRIME; 7 PROHIBITIONS; 8 SEX CRIME; 9 POLITICAL CRIME: Scandal, Sleaze, and Corruption; 10 TERRORISTS: Rebels, Radicals and Freedom Fighters, and Criminals with a Cause; 11 IMMIGRATION AND CRIME; NOTES; INDEX |
| Summary |
In Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that have contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation, media, and incarceration have affected the criminal underworld. In ten thematic chapters, Crime and the Rise of Modern America turns to the outlaws of the iconic West and the illegal distilleries of Prohibition, the turn-of-the-century immigrants, and the conmen who preyed on the peopl |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crime -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Crime -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Crime
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203830321 |
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0203830326 |
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